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The first required step that was interesting was to select a title. I was expecting this to be an easy drop down, with the choices Mr., Mrs., Ms., and maybe a few others. Clearly, this was a bad assumption. After clicking the dropdown menu, I got these choices:

Those are not titles. It's Firstname Lastname, comma, Title (optional "of") Name, on the same pattern as Firstname Lastname, Ph.D. And where do you use "Honorable" by itself? It's, ahem, The Honorable. Probably no use saying that "Reverend" is an adjective, as in "The Reverend Dr. King". Losing battle.

This being Air India, I'm sure the list is perfectly serious. Mistress probably means something like Headmistress, in parallel with Master. Unless there are households so old-fashioned, male children are still addressed as Master.

This in turn makes me realize that they omitted the Mother, Father, Sister and Brother package. As religious titles, not family relationships. But I'll bet the version for female applicants has an additional box asking for father's or husband's name.

Interesting that it's Doctor Mr, Mrs and Ms-- but Miss Doctor.

They're also missing other common options of political and business nature like president, ceo, etc.

If you're the president of a company, you have your own plane and don't have to spend time figuring out which of 95 courtesy titles best applies to you ;)

selecting an option on a web form does not "give" you a title. if you're a sitting ambassador or an ex-president (neither of which were choices on the form btw) i think you're going to have to show some credentials.